He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.
He was completely integrated now and he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at the sky. There were big white clouds in it. He touched the palm of his hand against the pine needles w...
He thought that he would lie down and think about nothing. Sometimes he could do this. Sometimes he could think about the stars without wondering about them and the ocean without problems and the sunr...
He thought of the Riviera, as it was then before it had all been built up, with the lovely stretches of blue sea and the sand beaches and the stretches of pine woods and the mountains of the Esterel g...
He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently...
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...
He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving.
He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes co...
He killed more men than the cholera.
He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye.
Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
For what are we born if not to aid one another?
Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
Cdo gjë mund të kalohet në këtë botë të mallkuar. Ndrydhi të gjitha ndjenjat, vdis nga brenda dhe cdo gjë do të kaloj lehtë. Vdis për së gjalli, ashtu sic bëjnë më të shumtët e njerëzve, në të shumtën...
But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.
But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The w...